The Oakland City Council is facing some very difficult decisions as it attempts to close a $58 million budget deficit in the next month, and yet the panel seems more obsessed these days with Mayor Jean Quan’s unpaid legal advisor — Dan Siegel — than with doing its job. The Chron reports that the council voted in a closed-door session on Tuesday to demand that Siegel stop representing the city on legal matters. But the council’s overheated concern appears to be much ado about nothing, because Siegel’s role as Quan’s advisor isn’t causing any imminent harm to the city and the council’s claims about his actions are unfounded.
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